Microsoft: Russia Using Cyberattacks in Coordination With Military Invasion of Ukraine
In apparent orchestrated coordination with military operations against Ukraine, six Russian state-supported threat actors have targeted civilian infrastructure inside the country with more than 237 individual cyber operations, according to...
Bumblebee Malware Buzzes Into Cyberattack Fray
At least three separate waves of cyberattacks are underway that feature a sophisticated new malware loader dubbed Bumblebee that fetches shell code and second-stage tools, such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and...
The Ransomware Crisis Deepens, While Data Recovery Stalls
When it comes to ransomware, more companies are seeing attacks and have had data encrypted, according to research out this week. And even though more companies are backing up...
Critical Vulnerabilities Leave Some Network-Attached Storage Devices Open to Attack
Network attached storage (NAS) device vendors QNAP and Synology this week disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in an open source fileserver technology integrated into their products.
The vulnerabilities — several of...
REvil Revival: Are Ransomware Gangs Ever Really Gone?
Evidence that members of the defunct REvil group may be reviving the ransomware gang continues to accumulate, but cybersecurity experts question whether the group will have the same impact...
Unpatched DNS-Poisoning Bug Affects Millions of Devices, Stumps Researchers
After months of work by industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity teams, a fix for a widespread Domain Name System (DNS) poisoning bug still hasn't been found. Now they're asking for...
SolarWinds Attackers Gear Up for Typosquatting Attacks
A typosquatting campaign intended to abuse popular brands is in the works, likely tied to Nobelium, the notorious Russian-state-backed group behind the SolarWinds attacks.
Recorded Future in its latest research is warning...
AI for Cybersecurity Shimmers With Promise, but Challenges Abound
Companies are quickly adopting cybersecurity products and systems that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, but the technology comes with significant challenges, and it can't replace human analysts,...
VHD Ransomware Variant Linked to North Korean Cyber Army
The ransomware strain known as VHD has been traced to North Korean state actor APT38 by a team of researchers using detailed code analysis and following a Bitcoin trail.
The Democratic People's Republic...
Microsoft Releases Defender for SMBs
Microsoft has released a stand-alone version of Defender for Business for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs), which the company says will provide endpoint security on par with that of a large enterprise.
A Microsoft survey found that...
